The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-26

fusing. There were five little Aims
worths who laid forcible hands upor
them and dragged them OF into cap
tivity. to be leased. shouted at and
squabbled over. They were unpleas
antly frank in their comments, too
And among other things they told
Lalage-Jane she was a. ugly rs hel
name. That was no news TO her; she
had often heard her mother lament
that the girl should be the ugly one.
As for her name-she knew that her
father had given her the first and her
mother the second half of it; she did
/ not know, however. that he had
called her Lalage in sheer delight al
flying in the face of usage, and that her
mother had tackled on the Jane as a
: desperate effort to reduced it TO respect
ability.
AT last she escaped from her perse-
cutorS and took refuge with Mrs. Aims
worth and Mrs. Ainsworth's unmarried
sister; but they stopped talking, and
presently one of Them called her ''poOr
child" and asked why she did not run
, away and play?
Lalage-Jane obeyed the kint-and
how glad she was on the following
afternoon when they came within sight
of their gate. "Father'll be waitin' at
the steps for u.s." she said to Jimmie,
with a laugh. you know we never
told him goodbye" But he was not
there. Only nanny came to meet
them, and they were taken into their
mothers room, where the shut
tiers were all bowed. She kissed them
Lalage-Jaue once and Jimmie dozen
times-and then nanny put them
out of the room, with parting order 10
make no noise. Mr.. AinSworth stayed
behind.
"When he comes out" Lalage-Jane
was thinking. and at that moment he
came. He nodded carelessly to the
child and began to descend the steps.
but she stopped him with a timid
question::
IF You please. sir-I want to know
where father iS?'
Your fatherr' Mr.. Ainsworth said.
looking at her uncomfortably. What
plain child she was, and-shsde OF
HOrace!-to call her Lalage. Her exc
watched him with a steady. unchildiSh
look. That was the worst of his call
ing. All his own ills and all the ills of
other people!
My child" he said, and then he
hesitated little. Her mother was
the proper person TO tel her. 1t was
too bad TO thrust such thing upon
him. He had done his part when he
shielded the children from a sight that
would have stood like a nightmare be-
tween them and their fathers memory
all their days. my child" he began
again. Unconsciously he fell into his
favOrite pulpit attitude--his hand lit
tie extended, and his sweet, mellow
voice-his voice was perpetual delight
to improperly subdued:
HE has gone to that undiscovered
country from whose bourne no traveller
returns"
Lalage-Jane looked at him in wonder
and indignation. You mean he's
gone travelin' an won't come back?"
she asked; and then she laughed. 'You
don't know! He'd never stay away
from Jimmie and me!'
Mr.. Ainsworth glanced back at the
child as he rode away.
''She will be as peculiar as her father
was, and newell! he had the courage
of his opinions When he had had
enough of this life he gave himself his
quietus. Uniucky? UnIucky was not
the name for hint And then to invest
his whole fortune in boat. OF course
it blew upr'
Yet when George Garrison deard the
news of his ruin the men around re-
membered how well he bore it. He
rode quietly out of town. but he never
reached home. The first driver who
passed along the road saw stifened
figure swaying in the gray morning
light. He had hung himself with his
bridle-rein.
But the little daughter still waited
for his return. Every morning her
first question was:
''Has-haS he come yet, mammy?"
And nanny would shake her head
and say:
Law, no. chiler'
My min misgive me sometime dat
ought 'er tell her." the old woman
would say in melancholy gossip with
Aunt Winney. the cook; ''but it'll 80
nigh To break her heart. She wzs DAT
wropped up in 'er paw! An dar's her
NAV not takin' no notice O nuthin'.
but jos a-cryir' an a-cryin"
One day a strange gentleman came.
LISA. the mder-nursc, said he was
lawyer. When he was gone Lalaee-
Jane ventured into her mothers room
L a